Michael Lei

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Michael Lei Veteran

Birth
Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
12 Jul 1823 (aged 83)
Loysville, Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Loysville, Perry County, Pennsylvania, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.366111, Longitude: -77.344842
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Michael was a son of Mathias Ley and Anna Maria Kemp, German immigrants who landed in Philadelphia in 1733.

Michael married Margaret Lambert about 1762, and resided in Berks County between Kutztown and Reading.

During the American Revolution, Michael served as a Private in Captain Abraham DeHuff's Company of the Pennsylvania Battalion of Musketry, and in Samuel John Atlee's Company, encamped near King's Bridge.

Michael was the father of twelve children:
Michael, Maria Anna, Maria Catherine, Nicholas, Maria Barbara, Margareta, George, Eva, Susanna, Elizabeth, John, and George Michael Loy.
Michael was a son of Mathias Ley and Anna Maria Kemp, German immigrants who landed in Philadelphia in 1733.

Michael married Margaret Lambert about 1762, and resided in Berks County between Kutztown and Reading.

During the American Revolution, Michael served as a Private in Captain Abraham DeHuff's Company of the Pennsylvania Battalion of Musketry, and in Samuel John Atlee's Company, encamped near King's Bridge.

Michael was the father of twelve children:
Michael, Maria Anna, Maria Catherine, Nicholas, Maria Barbara, Margareta, George, Eva, Susanna, Elizabeth, John, and George Michael Loy.

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HIER RUHEN DIE
GEBEINE VON MICHA
EL LEI ER IST GEBOH
REN IM IAHR 1740
UND IST GESTOR
BEN IM IAHR 1823
DEN 19 IULIUS SEIN
ALTER WAR 83 IAHR

NUN HAB ICH UIBER
WUNDEN CREUTZ
LEITEN ANQST
UND NOTH DURCH
IESU TOD UND WUN
DEN BIN ICH VER
SOEHNT MIT GOTT
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MICHAEL LOY
1740 --- 1823
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HERE REST THE
REMAINS OF MICHAEL
LEI HE WAS BORN
IN THE YEAR 1740
AND DIED
IN THE YEAR 1823
THE 19th JULY HIS
AGE WAS 83 YEARS

NOW I HAVE OVER-
COME AFFLICTION
SUFFERING ANXIETY
AND DISTRESS. THROUGH
JESUS DEATH AND WOUNDS
I AM RECONCILED
WITH GOD